Biology:Coccinellinae

Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Coccinellinae
Adult Cheilomenes lunata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Subfamily:	Coccinellinae Latreille, 1807

Coccinellinae is a subfamily of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 20 genera and 90 described species in Coccinellinae.

Genera

Further information: List of Coccinellidae genera § Subfamily Coccinellinae

These 29 genera belong to the subfamily Coccinellinae:

• Adalia Mulsant, 1846 ^{i c g b}
• Aiolocaria (Crotch, 1871)^g
• Anatis Mulsant, 1846 ^{i c g b} (giant lady beetles)
• Anisosticta Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g b}
• Aphidecta Weise, 1893 ^{i c g b}
• Calvia Mulsant, 1850 ^{i c g b}
• Ceratomegilla Crotch, 1873 ^{i c g b}
• Cheilomenes Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g}
• Coccinella Linnaeus, 1758 ^{i c g b}
• Coelophora Mulsant, 1850 ^{i c g b}
• Coleomegilla Timberlake, 1920 ^{i c g b}
• Cycloneda Crotch, 1871 ^{i c g b} (spotless lady beetles)
• Harmonia Mulsant, 1850 ^{i c g b}
• Hippodamia Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g b}
• Macronaemia Casey, 1899 ^{i c g b}
• Megalocaria Crotch, 1871 ^{i c g}
• Micraspis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g}
• Mulsantina Weise, 1906 ^{i c g b}
• Myzia Mulsant, 1846 ^{i c g b}
• Naemia Mulsant, 1850 ^{i c g b}
• Neda Mulsant, 1850 ^{g b}
• Neoharmonia Crotch, 1871 ^{i c g b}
• Olla Casey, 1899 ^{i c g b}
• Paranaemia Casey, 1899 ^{i c g b}
• Propylea Mulsant, 1846 ^{g b}
• Psyllobora Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g b} (fungus-eating lady beetles)
• Synonycha Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 ^{i c g}
• Verania Mulsant, 1850 ^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

Gallery

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  Anatis labiculata

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  Psyllobora vigintimaculata

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  Psyllobora vigintimaculata, larva

Further reading

• American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up. 
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (Pensoft Publishers) (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053. 
• Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist 40 (11): 393–421. doi:10.4039/Ent40393-11. https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_120121_notesonthecoccinellidae1868. 
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 0665070772. 
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520246577. 
• Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN 0028-7199. 
• Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand 37. https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/. 
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. 
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777. 
• "A Check List of the Insects of North America: Coleoptera". Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America (Entomological Information Services) 1: Coleoptera, Strepsiptera: 41–820. 1996. ISBN 9781889002019. http://nearctica.com/nomina/pdfs/volume1/volume1.htm. 
• Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9. 
• White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q687380 entry